Letteratura e corpivendole

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"Was I surprised that Joy had a husband? Was I fuck. It's her instinct to lie, to get as much from a
farang as she can. It's like the story of the scorpion and the frog. You heard that one?
There's this frog sitting down at the edge of a stream. A scorpion comes up and asks the frog
if he'll carry the scorpion across the stream. Scorpions can't swim, you see. Now, the frog's not
stupid. "If I let you on my back, you'll sting me," he says.
"Why would I do that?" asks the scorpion. "I want to get across the stream. If I sting you,
you'll die and I'll drown."
The frog thinks about it and then says okay. So the scorpion climbs on the frog's back and the
frog starts to swim across. As they reach the midway point, the scorpion stings the frog.
With its dying breath, the frog says to the scorpion,
"Why did you do that? Now we'll both die."
As he disappears under the water, the scorpion shrugs and says, "Instinct, I guess."
It wouldn't matter how much Pete loved Joy, how much he gave her. It wouldn't matter if he
meant to marry her and take her away from the life that had pushed her into prostitution, no
matter what he did or what he promised, she'd follow her instinct. It's like we say here. You can
take the girl out of the bar, but you can't take the bar out of the girl. "

Corpi globali - Firenze University Press
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